Auburn becoming the new Pitt?
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The New York Times named PSU national champions in ‘94, and PSU blasted that on the back side of a scoreboard for a while.
I had my son design a 1994 PSU National Champions shirt complete with Rose logo a few years ago. He then put it on Redbubble or some other site and bought it for me for Christmas. I wear it proudly.
Kind of agree, but its better than Alabama's 1941 9-2 season that the article points out. Wikipedia says PSU has 2 claimed national titles and 5 unclaimed titles.
Bama's shenanigans on this topic are well known
If fans want to view 1994 as a championship that's fine but PSU shouldn't anoint themselves with a pretend title
And Nebraska’s 94 “title” Is hereby designated as the “Tom Osborne Reach Around Title”
We should claim any title we want. The fact polls determined the champ is absurd.
Pitt goes way too far with it though lol
Pitt goes way too far with it though lol
I had to look that one up and it turns out Alabama claims a share of the 1941 title because of the Houlgate System. I didn't know what it was so I had to look that up too. Their AP rank that year was #20 and they finished third in the SEC. Yeah, that's logical.
Pitt finished 3-6 that year. I'm surprised they don't claim a title too.
Auburn tripping all over themselves to claim national titles and yet they still haven't posted the score of our beatdown of them in their house.
Like the NFL has the Super Bowl era I think CFB should have a clear line of delineation. You can debate when that is but for a long period of history played an inconsistent number of games and didn't play people outside of their league etc.
If you had to select a legit NC era where would that sit? I am asking legit not real. We still don't have a real NC crowed but it is much closer. Would it really start in 1950?
If you had to select a legit NC era where would that sit? I am asking legit not real. We still don't have a real NC crowed but it is much closer. Would it really start in 1950?
Why? PSU was the best team that year. Perhaps the greatest offense in the history of NCAA Football.
if we were still independent and not part of Big10, we would have won the vote going away.
I'm not sold on that. I think if both Penm State and Nebraska were undefeated that Osborne would have gotten the pity vote.
We were the best offense of all-time though and, for me, we absolutely were the best team. Would have loved to have seen that team run through a playoff.
Auburn? LoL Amateurs!
Never forget that Pitt claims a national championship from 1918, when the team went 4-1. The loss was a thrilling 10-9 loss to the Cleveland Naval Reserves football team.
Never forget that Pitt claims a national championship from 1918, when the team went 4-1. The loss was a thrilling 10-9 loss to the Cleveland Naval Reserves football team.
Penn State didn't, the New York Times did, big difference. I'd have no problem if they did, it was a Beauty Pageant back in those days anyway.
Say what you will, guy is one of the greatest ever and we would have loved to have had him.
Nebraska was damn good, but they were just waiting to give Uncle Tom his first title.
Maybe, but that was the problem, all about opinion back then, wasn't settled on the field.
